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Most magazine writers don't expect a few words thrown into an article to last more than a week or two in the public consciousness — certainly not to thrive into the next couple of centuries. But a sentence that Charles Hopkins Clark put into Scribner's Monthly in November 1876 stuck hard. Flush with civic pride about Hartford, Clark wrote: "Relatively to the number of its inhabitants, it is the richest city in the United States." It was a sentiment that would be widely embraced and largely unchallenged for decades to come. The redoubtable Clark was one to know about such things. Born in Hartford, a graduate of Hartford Public High School and Yale, he joined...

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Most magazine writers don't expect a few words thrown into an article to last more than a week or two in the public consciousness — certainly not to thrive into the next couple of centuries. But a sentence that Charles Hopkins Clark put into Scribner's...

Bells have long been expected to alert listeners that something is happening. Yet they are frequently valued not only for their sound, but as quiet icons of remembrance. Silent bells can ring loudly in our imaginations.
Historically, and into the...

The 7th Annual Washington Green Cemetery Tour, with a special World War One theme, will take place on Friday, October 24 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Costumed guides will lead groups of visitors from the Gunn Museum to the Washington Cemetery where the town's...

A free World War One artifact appraisal event will take place at 1:00pm on Sunday, October 12 in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington, Connecticut. Pre-registered participants are invited to bring their World War One...

A century ago, World War I turned the food industry inside out. Instead of urging consumers to buy wheat, meat, sugar, and fats, manufacturers and the federal government promoted eating less of those foods so they could be sent to Europe to feed...

Although it is dedicated to aviation history, the New England Air Museum hosted the third annual "Flights and Fantasies Quilt Show" during the last week in September.The warm, soft quilts provided contrast among the cold steel of the airplanes...

Benjamin Griffin, associate editor for the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California, Berkeley, will give a free talk on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 5:30 p.m., following a 5 p.m. reception at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 51...

Jamie Mattos enrolled at Goodwin College to get a nursing degree, but along the way, she discovered a talent for writing poetry.
"I always loved art and poetry, but I didn't know I could write poems until I tried," said Mattos, whose work has...

Join us at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28 in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington for a free program for kids about World War One pigeons.
The book, "Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!," about the famous pigeon who helped save...

Tucking into a dish of Scottish haggis is not a task for the fainthearted. There are various haggis recipes, but basically it is sheep's pluck — the heart, lungs and liver — cooked together, then mixed with suet and oatmeal and boiled in a sheep's...

Susan Schoenberger, author of "The Virtues of Oxygen," will speak Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., at a free Tolland Public Library Foundation's Eaton-Dimock-King Authors Series event at Tolland Town Hall, 21 Tolland Green.
The novel is about...

As I look up at the stone observation tower on the grounds of Camp Columbia State Park, I can't help but think of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel." It's the story of a girl locked away in a tower who grows long locks of blond hair....

Celebrated Irish author and humanitarian Don Mullan will discuss "The Christmas Truce and the Great War" on at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Center for Communications and Engineering, Room 218, on Quinnipiac University's Mount...

Update: Event has been rescheduled to Sunday, Sept. 7 at 5 p.m.
It takes Hartford trumpeter and bandleader Ray Gonzalez 10 months out of every year to organize the festival that bears his name. And this year — as usual — he'll fine-tune the music until...

Admiral William Sheffield Cowles and his wife, Anna "Bamie" Roosevelt Cowles, must have slipped into Union Station quietly, without being recognized.
Had the mid-day travelers in the lobby noticed them, they would certainly have put two and two...

On the front page on Oct. 7, 1917, in the breathless style of the day, The Hartford Courant informed readers that it had dispatched a correspondent to war-ravaged France, where the 26th Yankee Division from New England had begun to arrive.
"Only...

One of the most famous combat veterans from World War I is a stray bull terrier mutt from New Haven whose wartime exploits made him the first military dog to be promoted to sergeant.
When Stubby died in April 1926, the New York Times ran a half-page...

On Dec. 14, 1918, a month after the armistice was signed ending the first world war, The Courant ran a story on Page 1 reporting the miraculous effect the war's conclusion seemed to have on thousands of mentally wounded warriors.
"SHELL SHOCK...

The historic value of the classic European-style Georgian colonial known as the Bulkeley Mansion in West Hartford was not lost on Keith Garner when he bought the estate as a single father in 1992 for $685,000. But that's not why he bought it.
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